difftool: provide basename to external tools

Michael J Gruber · gitster · commit 4a689afb030c · 2010-12-16T13:01:36.000-08:00
Currently, only configured diff helpers get the basename of the file
being compared. Tools specified with "git difftool -x" only get the
names of temporary files for the different versions.

Export BASE so that an external tool can read the name from the
environment. Rather than using a third argument, this avoids breaking
existing scripts which may somewhat carelessly be using "$@" rather than
"$1" "$2".

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber &lt;git@drmicha.warpmail.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ with custom merge tool commands and has the same value as `$MERGED`.
 	Specify a custom command for viewing diffs.
 	'git-difftool' ignores the configured defaults and runs
 	`$command $LOCAL $REMOTE` when this option is specified.
+	Additionally, `$BASE` is set in the environment.
 
 -g::
 --gui::
diff --git a/git-difftool--helper.sh b/git-difftool--helper.sh
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ launch_merge_tool () {
 	fi
 
 	if use_ext_cmd; then
+		export BASE
 		eval $GIT_DIFFTOOL_EXTCMD '"$LOCAL"' '"$REMOTE"'
 	else
 		run_merge_tool "$merge_tool"
